A day before Coachella kicks off in the Southern California desert, Arcade Fire announced they’ll be playing a surprise (well maybe not anymore) set in the Mojave Tent at 6:45 pm tomorrow (Friday). Better late than never to announce this, right? Arcade Fire previously played a string of pop-up shows in New York City after […]
L7 are celebrating big for the 30th anniversary of Bricks Are Heavy. The band announced a reissue of their third record and a tour of the U.S. throughout October. On April 14, 1992, Bricks Are Heavy released via Slash Records. The 30th anniversary reissue is slated for release on September 30, which will include all 11 tracks remastered […]
Rainsford seems like the L.A. girl who has it all: the perfect family (her mother is Andie MacDowell), the perfect Instagram (she’s a model), and even the perfect soul (she adopts stray kittens.) But as she explores a future in pop music, her lyrics about life’s imperfections are, oddly enough, her best feature. Take “Brutal,” […]
Billy Strings and Post Malone joined forces to cover Johnny Cash’s “Cocaine Blues.” Malone joined Strings at his show in Southern California at the Observatory in Orange County. [embedded content][embedded content] Strings, the modern bluegrass prodigy, performed alongside his string-filled band with the Hollywood’s Bleeding rapper. “Billy Strings is the best to ever fucking do it,” Post Malone […]
Sonic Youth played a show in Ukraine back in the spring of 1989. Today, the band released a live recording from their set in Kyiv on April 14, in which its proceeds will benefit World Central Kitchen and relief to Ukraine. The nine-track recording is available via Bandcamp. It was the band’s first trek into […]
Chris Farren knows a lot of music and merchandising. First, he served as the frontman for the Florida-based punk act Fake Problems for nearly a decade. For the past eight years, he’s been releasing indie rock albums under his own name, building up a rabid fan base via his captivating online persona and social media […]
Welcome to the latest edition of The Offramp! Each month, rock writer Corbin Reiff will highlight some of the most dynamic artists and projects going on in music today. Throw on the turn signal, crank up the stereo and enjoy the ride! As 2019 ticked into 2020, Kurt Vile had had enough. The Philadelphia-based singer-songwriter […]
“I made it here,” I wrote to a mentor of mine while the sound of xylophones quietly trickled in the background. Direction has been an ever-evolving map for me. Instances where the paper folds over have placed creases in what I had assumed was my intended road. Hot take, but I must say the notion […]
The first-ever Harlem Festival of Culture has been announced today. The event was inspired by the documentary “Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)” by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson which debuted at the Sundance film festival last year. The documentary details the Harlem Cultural Festival of 1969, a moment that history has […]
The otherwise musically-mononymous Jewel Kilcher’s story could be a lesson in real-life fairy tales: the rural Alaskan native who yodeled with her cowboy-musician dad, slept enchantedly under star-filled skies with her ranch animals, and was so free-spirited she once lived out of her car, taking photos to prove it, smiling, guitar in hand. By the […]